The Woman in Red Boots

The Woman in Red Boots
French theatrical release poster
FrenchLa Femme aux bottes rouges
Directed byJuan Luis Buñuel
Written by
Produced byClaude Jaeger
Starring
CinematographyLeopoldo Villaseñor
Edited byGeneviève Vaury
Production
companies
  • Procinex
  • ORTF
  • Gerico Sound
  • Producciones Cinematográficas Logar
  • Rewind Film
Distributed by
  • UGC
  • NEF
  • CFDC (France)
  • Maxi Cinematografica Italiana (Italy)
  • As Films S.A. (Spain)
Release dates
  • 11 December 1974 (1974-12-11) (France)
  • 12 December 1974 (1974-12-12) (Italy)
  • 11 March 1975 (1975-03-11) (Spain)
Running time
95 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • Italy
  • Spain
LanguageFrench

The Woman in Red Boots (French: La Femme aux bottes rouges; Italian: La ragazza con gli stivali rossi; Spanish: La mujer con botas rojas) is a 1974 fantasy comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Juan Luis Buñuel.[1][2] The film stars Catherine Deneuve as a beautiful young writer with the power to make her wishes reality whose life becomes entangled with the plots of the wealthy art patron Perrot, played by Fernando Rey. The film is highly surrealistic and tinged with a meta-narrative, with the characters roughly representing divisions of the art world: the raw creative power of young Françoise, the heroine who has nearly unlimited potential; the cynical manipulation and distant intellectualism of the elder Perrot; and the middle-aged Marc (Adalberto Maria Merli), trapped in the middle and forced to choose.[3]

  1. ^ "The Woman with Red Boots de Juan Luis Buñuel (1974)". UniFrance. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  2. ^ Un siècle de cinéma fantastique et de SF. Editions Le Manuscrit. p. 284. ISBN 978-2-7481-6073-4.
  3. ^ Berchtold, Jacques (1998). Echiquiers d'encre: le jeu d'échecs et des lettres (XIXe-XXe s.). Librairie Droz. p. 42. ISBN 978-2-600-00289-9.